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What's New

There are new videos and lesson plans on our site!

Math and ELA in Grades K-2

Elementary and Middle School materials

Expanded High School resources

We also now have new cues in the video modules! The videos on this website have now been tagged so that you can search to find exemplary Common Core teaching that helps students achieve &quotdeeper learning&quot which includes; mastering core academic content, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and self-directed learning.

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About Us

America Achieves helps communities and states leverage policy, practice and leadership to build high quality educational systems and prepare each young person for success in careers, college, and citizenship.

Educators and communities have demonstrated that all young people are capable of achieving at much higher levels -- but these pockets of excellence are not enough. That is why America Achieves supports leaders and communities with real potential for large-scale success. This support includes:

offering fellowships and networks that tap and build on the creativity and expertise of some of America's most successful and promising educators

disseminating tools that communicate and generate support for the high expectations all students deserve as well as the support they need to get and stay on track for success

developing recommendations and bipartisan support for investing public funds in evidence-based solutions that can be taken to large scale

Throughout our work, we uncover, examine, and promote approaches and practices that can drive success across entire educational systems, communities, and states. We aim to address unmet needs, avoid duplication of efforts, and, wherever possible, work with partners in order to fully leverage scarce resources for maximum impact for children and young people.

1. Searching on this site

Can I see a list of everything on this site?

Yes! First open the search page using the black Search link at the top of your dashboard page or the top of any lesson module.

Next choose from Lessons which will search for and show you the complete video lesson modules, or Resources which will search for the individual resources including the videos, as well as all site documents including Word, PowerPoint, PDF and others.

Click on the purple Search button. All available lessons will be shown in a list below the search box.

Lessons search will show you the list of complete video lesson modules, which include analysis and shift videos, lesson plans and other resources related to the lesson.

Resources search will show you all individual resources on this site (including the videos, Word, PowerPoint, PDF and other documents).

Click on any detail of the lesson in the list to view that module. Click on the download link next to each resource to download it.

How do I use the basic search box?

First open the search page using the black Search link at the top of your dashboard page or the top of any lesson module.

Next choose from Lessons which will search for and show you the complete video lesson modules, or Resources which will search the for individual resources including the videos, as well as all site documents including Word, PowerPoint, PDF and others.

Type a word into the search box. For example if you are looking for a lesson led by David Liben, type Liben into the search box then hit the purple Search button.

The results will appear below the search section. Click on any part of the result to go to the lesson module.

Using Advanced Search for lessons and resources.

First choose Lessons or Resources:

Advanced search for lessons lets you filter for specific elements of lessons. You can use any one of these steps on its own or any combination of steps 1, 2, 3a and 3b to find lessons. Click the purple search button to show a list.

Step 1: Choose the domain – either ELA/Literacy or Mathematics. When you choose, the subjects that this site has lessons available for will appear in step 3a.

Step 2: Choose a grade level (or levels). When you choose a grade level it will reduce the list of available subjects in step 3a to match the lessons that are available on this site. 3a is optional – you can leave all or chose one subject.

Step 3b: This step allows you to see in the search results lessons that feature a particular Common Core Shift. When you select one of the shifts in 3b, the search results will tell you the number of times it occurs in each lesson. For the selection made above – ELA/Literacy, all grades, History, Evidence from text – 2 History lessons are returned. The search results are shown below the advanced search section.

You can see how often the selected shift will be featured in each lesson.

The process for searching for resources is similar except that step 3b allows you to choose the type of resource you want.

2. Sorting the search results

Search results are sortable. Click on the heading of the column (i.e. Lesson Name, Subject, Domain, Grade) to sort the results by that column.

The blue label tells you what you are searching on, and the category can be sorted ascending or descending by using the directional arrows.

3. Common Core State Standards

What are the Common Core State Standards?

The Common Core State Standards provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them. The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers.

The shifts are the major changes in instruction that happen with implementation of the Common Core State Standards. Read more about the key shifts or watch the ELA/Literacy shifts and the Math shifts videos accessible from the home page.

For ELA/Literacy the key shifts are:

Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational texts

Reading and writing grounded in evidence from text

Regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabulary

For Mathematics they are:

Focus strongly where the Standards focus

Coherence: think across grades, and link to major topics within grades

Rigor. In major topics pursue with equal intensity: conceptual understanding; procedural skill and fluency; and application

Are all of these shifts shown on this website?

Not every shift can be shown in a classroom teaching video as some of these reflect the thought and decisions made before the teacher arrives in the classroom. On this website you will find video of teachers demonstrating and talking about:

These documents, and particular standards, are referenced by page number in the lesson plans on this site.

4. Copyright and use of materials

Materials on this site are licensed via a Creative Commons License for royalty free use by third parties. This does not include commercial use, but does allow third parties to distribute the original material licensed through the Creative Commons License and to make derivative material, as long as it is appropriately acknowledged.

For your own use, you are very welcome to download and use any resource on the site at no cost. You can make changes to the lesson plans and other resources to suit your needs. You may not sell any of the resources, even if you make changes to them. If you share the materials you must acknowledge where they came from. However, resources on this site may not be re-posted to other websites without the express written permission of America Achieves.

Restrictions on video use: Videos from this website may not be posted to YouTube, Facebook or any other social media sites without the express written permission of America Achieves. Videos on this site may not be used as any part of a teacher's performance review.

5. Teachers featured on this site

The teachers who are featured on this site are from public and charter schools in 7 different states.

Many of these teachers are members of the America Achieves Teacher Fellowship. For more information about the Fellowship please visit our site at americaachieves.org

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The use of this site is governed by the Privacy Policy. By accepting these terms of use you agree to accept and abide by all the terms of the Privacy Policy.

The videos and related materials on this website are intended to serve as a resource to a wide audience of users.

In addition to teachers, principals and district and state staff, we welcome individuals and organizations working in teacher education and professional development, educational materials development, and research to this site.

Resources on this site including videos, lesson plans and related resources used in the lessons, blank copies of assignments and assessments, and anonymous completed assignments from students are made available for download and printing (where applicable) as professional development resources.

Materials on this site are licensed via a Creative Commons License for royalty‐free use by third parties. This does not include commercial use, but does allow third parties to distribute the original material licensed through the Creative Commons License and to make derivative material, as long as it is appropriately acknowledged.

In accessing this site users agree to abide by the terms of use:

Resources on this site may not be re-posted to other websites without the express written permission of America Achieves.

Videos from this website may not be posted to YouTube, Facebook or any other social media sites without the express written permission of America Achieves.

All materials sourced from this website and later distributed either electronically or in hard copy to third parties must be appropriately acknowledged.

Materials on this site may not be used for commercial purposes.

Videos on this site may not be used as any part of a teacher’s performance review.

Privacy Policy

This policy (the "Privacy Policy") addresses collection, use and access to information that may be obtained through the use of this website.

We extend the following information to assure you, our guest, that we are concerned about and respect your privacy. Please know that America Achieves will never sell, lease or rent your confidential information or share it with any other organization. However, if it is necessary, we will share information for legal reasons. We will always endeavor to take steps to assure that any information you provide to us will remain secure. We want you to feel safe in your online experience while visiting our site. Please be aware though that, despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We therefore request that you take a moment to review the following valuable information. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and request that you review this policy for updates.

How We Collect and Use Your Information

We collect personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information from you in a number of ways. "Personally identifiable information" is information that personally identifies you, such as your name, telephone number, postal address and e-mail address (or other information that is associated by us with such above information). "Non-personally identifiable information" is information that does not personally identify you, including anonymous information and aggregate data.

We use this information to understand better how our visitors use our website, research our visitors' demographics, interests, and behaviour, provide visitors with customized services and information, improve our promotional and outreach efforts, and for other similar purposes.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

The following information is collected automatically when you use this website:

The Internet domain and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the web) from which you access our web site

The type of browser and operating system used to access our site

The date and time you access our site

The pages you visit.

If You Send Us Personal Information

We do not give any personal information to any private organizations. We do not collect information for commercial marketing.

Personal Information and Choice

You may choose whether to provide personal information on-line.

America Achieves does not collect personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it. Your choice to provide an alias or other placeholder information will not impair your ability to use this web site and read or download any information provided on the site. Your provision of such information is your consent to our use of such information to better serve you, our visitor, and others coming to our site. By using this site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

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This website uses cookies to customize and enhance your browsing experience. Cookies are simple text files stored on your computer by Internet web sites to help identify users and enhance customer service. Cookies created by using this website will contain personally identifying information such as user contact information consisting of name, address, phone number or e-mail address. The cookie feature is used only to store a randomly generated identifying tag on your computer and does not compromise your privacy or security.

You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although that will prevent you from accessing the most useful features on our website as this requires you to be logged on and authenticated in the first instance.

We do not use "persistent cookies," and only use "session cookies" to help us "remember" you until the session times out, or the closing of your browser. Session cookies are automatically deleted from your hard drive after the end of a session. We will not allow third parties to place any cookies, web beacons or other similar devices on our website. We do not control such devices that may be placed on our website by third parties.

As previously stated, America Achieves does not sell, lease or rent your confidential information. However, we may need to disclose personal information as required by the law, regulation, court order, subpoena, search warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request. We may also in good faith do so to help enforce our site rules, protect your safety or security and/or to protect the safety and security of our site.

If you are dissatisfied with any of the materials or other contents of the site or with these Terms of Use, you are certainly welcome to discontinue use of the site. If you have created a user account with us, you may access and update your information, and indicate whether you wish to opt out of receiving communications from us, via your profile page.

You can email us at common.core@americaachieves.org or write to us at Privacy Matters, America Achieves, 95 Morton St, New York, NY 10014, regarding any questions or comments regarding this privacy policy, to notify us of any errors or changes, or to indicate whether you wish to opt out of receiving communications from us (such as e-mail newsletters and updates). Please be advised that such opt-outs will not apply to our use of your personally identifiable information for other purposes, such as responding to your requests for information or services and communicating with you about your user account.

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America Achieves, its agencies, officers, or employees exercise no control over the organizations, views, accuracy, copyright or trademark compliance or the legality of the material contained on those servers and do not sponsor, endorse, or approve the information, content, products, materials, opinions or services contained on such external sites. The visitor proceeds to these external sites at their own risk. America Achieves specifically disclaims any and all liability from damages which may result from the accessing of a third party site which is linked to the America Achieves web site, or from reliance upon any such information.

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Any User Contribution you post to the site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose.

You represent and warrant that you own or control all rights in and to the User Contributions and have the right to grant America Achieves and its affiliates the license granted above.

You represent and warrant that all of your User Contributions do and will comply with these Terms of Use, and you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless America Achieves and its affiliates and licensors for any breach of that representation and warranty.

You understand and acknowledge that you are responsible for any User Contributions you submit or contribute, and you, not America Achieves, have fully responsibility for such content, including its legality, reliability, accuracy and appropriateness.

Any content and/or opinions uploaded, expressed or submitted to the web site, and all articles and responses to questions and other content, other than the content provided by America Achieves, are solely the opinions and the responsibility of the person or entity submitting them and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of America Achieves. We are not responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of the web site.

We have the right to:

Remove or refuse to post any User Contributions for any or no reason in our sole discretion.

Take any action with respect to any User Contribution that we deem necessary or appropriate in our sole discretion if we believe that such User Contribution violates the Terms of Use infringes any intellectual property right or other right, threatens the personal safety of users of the web site and the public or could create liability for America Achieves.

Disclose your identity to any third party who claims that material posted by you violates their rights, including their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.

Take appropriate legal action, including without limitation, referral to law enforcement, for any illegal or unauthorized use of the web site.

Terminate your access to all or part of the website for any or no reason, including without limitation, any violation of these Terms of Use.

However, we do not undertake to review all material before it is posted on the Website, and cannot ensure prompt removal of objectionable material after it has been posted. Accordingly, we assume no liability for any action or inaction regarding transmissions, communications or content provided by any user or third party. We have no liability or responsibility to anyone for performance or non-performance of the activities described in this paragraph.

Content Standards

These content standards apply to any and all User Contributions and Interactive Services. User Contributions must in their entirety comply with all applicable federal, state, local and international laws and regulations. Without limiting the foregoing, User Contributions must not:

Infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual property rights of any other person.

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Be likely to deceive any person.

Promote any illegal activity, or advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act.

Cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety or be likely to upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.

Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or organization.

Involve commercial activities or sales, such as contests, sweepstakes and other sales promotions, barter or advertising.

Give the impression that they emanate from us or any other person or entity, if this is not the case.

Copyright Infringement

It is the policy of the Company to terminate the user accounts of repeating infringers.

This is intended to take advantage of the safe harbor offered under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which, among other things, shields site owners from liability for copyright infringement resulting from user-generated content. You don't have to have a separate policy, but it would be shorter to link it here then to put in the body of the terms – what you need to do to qualify for the safe harbor is (1) designate an agent to receive notices of copyright infringement, notify the US Copyright Office and pay the specified fee; (2) identify the agent on the site and provide contact information; and (3) adopt a policy to terminate subscriber accounts of repeat infringers.

Policy Towards Children

We are concerned about the safety and privacy of children who use the Internet. Our website is not designed for or directed to children under the age of 13. Consistent with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ("COPPA"), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. If we become aware that a child under 13 has somehow provided us with personally identifiable information without verifiable parental consent, we will use our best efforts to remove such information from our files. If you believe that your child has provided us with such information without your consent, please e-mail us common.core@americaachieves.org or write to us at Privacy Matters, America Achieves, 95 Morton St, New York, NY 10014.

International Use

We make no claims that materials on this site are appropriate or may be downloaded for use in locations outside the United States. Access to this site from countries or territories where such access is illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access this site outside the United States do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws. By sending us your data, you consent to its transfer to and storage within the United States.

Governing Law/Forum

This Privacy Policy is governed by New York law. If we have a dispute regarding this policy or your use of this website, you agree that it shall be resolved solely in the state or federal courts located in New York City.

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The use of this site is governed by the Privacy Policy. By accepting these terms of use you agree to accept and abide by all the terms of the Privacy Policy.

The videos and related materials on this website are intended to serve as a resource to a wide audience of users.

In addition to teachers, principals and district and state staff, we welcome individuals and organizations working in teacher education and professional development, educational materials development, and research to this site.

Resources on this site including videos, lesson plans and related resources used in the lessons, blank copies of assignments and assessments, and anonymous completed assignments from are made available for download and printing (where applicable) as professional development resources.

Materials on this site are licensed via a Creative Commons License for royalty‐free use by third parties. This does not include commercial use, but does allow third parties to distribute the original material licensed through the Creative Commons License and to make derivative material, as long as it is appropriately acknowledged.

In accessing this site users agree to abide by the terms of use:

Resources on this site may not be re-posted to other websites without the express written permission of America Achieves.

Videos from this website may not be posted to YouTube, Facebook or any other social media sites without the express written permission of America Achieves.

All materials sourced from this website and later distributed either electronically or in hard copy to third parties must be appropriately acknowledged.

Materials on this site may not be used for commercial purposes.

Videos on this site may not be used as any part of a teacher’s performance review.

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